It is possible to substitute the value of a numerical expression to this expression in strings of characters. Suppose for instance that you have a command defobj1 defining some type of objects (cf. 6), and want to create objects p_0, p_1, p_2, and so on up to n (a variable). This is the correct way to write it in a program :
do i 0 n defobj1 p_!(i) enddo
(for the do loop, see 4.8). Here the numerical expression i is converted to an integer, and this integer is substituted to !(i) in the argument. It is possible to put any kind of numerical expression inside !() (for instance !(i*j+2)). It is possible also to substitute floating point values : if you write
defobj1 p_%(i)
you will obtain p_0.0000000000000000, p_1.0000000000000000, and so on up to n.
The substitution of numerical expressions is a particular case of the way to make substitutions in the command interpreter (cf. 4.5).